Nefeli Poulopati is the 2025-2026 Masiyiwa-Bernstein Fellow with the International Litigation and Advocacy Team. Nefeli graduated from New York University (NYU) with an LL.M. in International Legal Studies, as a Dean’s Graduate Award recipient. While at NYU, Nefeli supported the work of the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (Margaret Satterthwaite) and worked as a research assistant for Professor Kevin Davis on a project concerning legal empowerment and autocratization. She also worked as a teaching assistant at NYU in August 2025.
Nefeli holds a BA in Law from the University of Cambridge and was an active member of the Cambridge Pro Bono Society, conducting research for a report requested by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and for Amicus ALJ. Nefeli has completed internships with the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations, UNHCR and International Bridges to Justice, and worked for 2 years in the in-house legal department of a renewable energy company in London, UK. Her interests lie primarily in public international law and international human rights law, and she recently presented her research as a panellist at the 2025 Reppy Institute Graduate Conference, at Cornell University.